Tad and I were completely blessed recently to be able to enjoy a few new experiences together for our 3^rd wedding anniversary celebration. We decided we would fix up our ancient tent trailer and start creating memories of our own family to enjoy for years to come. And what a joy it was! The work on the trailer paid of spectacularly as we took it on the maiden voyage to Arizona’s south rim of the Grand Canyon. Our trip then took us to Arches national park, Capitol Reef National park and back home. The trip was incredible fun, we loved hiking and exploring the new places, and I LOVED taking pictures and experimenting with my camera. Tad and I have always been able to have a lot of fun together and this was no exception. This country is beautiful and full of adventures to be had. Family time is very important, and we are so thankful we were able to spend it safely.

 

This is a picture we took on our actual anniversary when we went to dinner. We tried the Rodizo Grill which Tad fell in love with. I enjoyed it too, but in a different way.

It has been a long time since I have updated so I am throwing a few things together to slap on this blog so that I can feel better about not having done it sooner. It is just a nice way for me to be able to leave a record of some kind. Not too shabby for the way I do things.

As part of my calling as the Young Women Second counselor in the presidency it is my responsibility to come up with a theme, decorations, and refreshments for the activity that happens once a year called New Beginnings. This is where we introduce the current year’s theme. For this year it is ‘Stand ye in Holy places and be not moved.’ So we built off of that. I came up with a theme called, “follow the yellow brick road of virtue”.

Yellow/gold are colors that are attributed to the Young Women value of Virtue, we did a path of yellow bricks which had things that keep us virtuous and righteously living written on them. Along with experiences the young women have had that have helped them. The path wound through a dark forest of sin and temptation then through a forest (some of the greenery is pictured below) then ultimately ended at the temple. I’ll find and post better pictures at some point.

 

History in the making…

We are investing in our future by fixing up our new hand me down trailer. We “bought” it from my parents with the hope it would be our first installment of many future fond memories as a family. I remember camping in it many times and hope we can fix it up so that my children will share some of the same kind adventures.

The tent trailer is an 1986 Skamper and this is just the first round up changes. It’s taken us a series of weeks to get this much done. But all things take time.

 This one is the latch that keeps the top from

coming up while we are driving. Usually important. So we went to see if we could find a new one. Trouble is it took a bit of effort because of how old this trailer is but we were blessed to find one! We also went to the trouble of re sealing the entire top. There was evidence of some water damage on the wood inside in some of the corners so we fixed it all up to make sure that wouldn't be a problem ever again. 

 This one we found that the track was disconnected from the back of the propane stove. We used the drill to make new holes because the other holes were stripped out. Then re attached it to the back. We had to be very careful not to split the wood the stove is built into. 

A few weeks ago we packed the wheel barrings on the trailer and made sure the tires were good enough. I still need to inflate them to the proper psi but for the most part that is finished. We took 2 days to get the wiring and installation completed on the hitch and the conversion from a flat four to a round seven.  

next on the list was the gas. We checked the line which seemed to be filling but I was swearing I could smell it. Tad got underneath and checked the lines only to find water had gotten into the line and frozen. There was this massive hole that looked like someone had sliced it from the inside out with a large blade. So the line was disconnected and cut to find that it needed to be flared and we didn't have the tools to do it. Yet another trip to get parts. wahoo! A few hours later and a few swipes of our wonder card we had all new propane line and had to go home and run the new line. Which as far as we can tell will work great! 

fuse box still needs a cover!

Handle that needed LOVE so that it would lock

Door to replace

Through all of the changes and updates we are finding more that need to be done. So it truly is a fixer upper. We are building memories and a trailer it seems. 

So far it has been a lot of work and a lot of fun! 

Oh the places we'll go! 

I am curious to see if I will still think that a tent is better. I'm the kind of girl who would take my bedroll and throw it under the stars and be happy. That is what I'm used to. So we will see how our winter camping in our skamper goes. 

A few people have asked me how things are going. That is a pretty broad questions but I know they are curious about a few things. Tad is back in school for his last semester before he takes his Journeyman license test. We have quite a bit to look forward to in that regard. He is a hard worker and is brilliant so it comes down to a few tests and getting the right hours required. 

Quick note:

Our 3^rd wedding anniversary is quickly approaching in March and we are hoping that we can use Tad’s spring break for a trip. Since we don’t see a lot of one another during this time I am really hoping we can have some miracle happen so we can have time together. We both work full time and have been keeping busy with work, school, and our church callings.

 

Baby:

Emotionally, spiritually, and physically I needed a break from all the testing we were doing while trying to get pregnant. Seeing all of those negative tests day after day, month after month wears quite quickly. I’m going to be back in the running sooner than later as I start a new method next week. My main focus is to try to clean my system up and get rid of some impurities that we think may be slowing our progression with getting pregnant. We continue to thank our friends and family for their ongoing support and love. We EVER so badly desire to have little angels of our own to love and teach, to laugh with and I’m sure on occasion to wipe away the dirt from a skinned knee from playing too hard. 

My time is FULL right now with serving in our Young Women’s organization, and after February 12^th things will become much more manageable as we will be over our New Beginnings program, where we welcome the sweet “new girls” that will be coming in to the organization this year. Our Youth’s theme is to “Stand in Holy places, and be not moved.” I am excited to see the miracles that transpire when we follow the teachings and counsel of our Savior Jesus Christ, and I can tell you I’ve already seen it happening.

That is the update for this month. We love you all and hope and pray you are doing well.

We are as excited as ever to take a new run this year at starting our family. All along the way we have been blessed with many miraculous miracles that have helped increase our faith and hope as we move forward with testing and treatment.

 Thank you to everyone participating in the baby booties! I have more ready if you want to shoot me an email with requests to place an order you can do so to this email: destinywright1@hotmail.com

 Tad and I are truly enjoying one another and the joys of a new year. We have a good feeling this year might be the one we start our family!!!! I can hardly wait to have that blessing in my life. For now I will keep trying to be the best I can and hang in there as we do our tests. To our friends and family, your support and love means everything!

Baby Booties

Here are some of the most recent booties that have been ordered. I am loving the creativity of the booties being requested and seeing how everyone is mixing different colors.

 Light brown and pale baby blue 4.5 inch infant/toddler

Light brown and a pale baby blue double lined body with
a solid light blue top. Gives a nice variation.

Hot pink and orange toddler

Please help spread the word to your

 friends to see if they are interested!

 I’m going to be making some

“santa’s feet” only available this month!

  pictures of Santa's feet booties coming soon!

Phones at work have been crazy so I've been looking for ways to help me remember how much I really do enjoy helping people. Customer service is the business to be in if you want to be a help for good and a strength for giving yourself the opportunity to exercise patients. While looking for a way to help myself I decided to send a cute picture to a few loved ones. To which I received many positive responses. This was the photo.
 Isn't this super cute? SMILE!

Quick update. Our last treatment hopes and dreams were dashed by reality. In truth we were hoping this one would work out for us so we would be able to call the radiology department at St. Marks to go and have our test done. However after our 5th round of Clomid I never did ovulate this month. We had three successful months in a row which was an incredible blessing and are hoping we can get to that point again. In the past we have had a few runs of success and then a pit fall where I stop responding. Emotionally all of the testing, waiting and testing has worn on me in ways that are difficult to express. I can honestly say that there is an incredible human capacity to try.

Difficulty comes upon us and we have to ask ourselves what are we made of, how are we going to act and what can we learn. Then the more you try to endure and face the experience at hand the more it becomes evident that we are going to have good and bad days, we are going to feel pain and sorrow as well as love and increased awareness that we are not forgotten or left alone without a hope. Heavenly Father and his son, our Savior bless our lives immensely. We just have to be looking for those blessings.

Recently we took our Young Women to the temple to see the lights and to reflect on ways to live pure virtuous lives. I shot a few pictures on my phone and thought about how uplifting light in general is, an how it dispels the darkness in our lives. It was a nice break.

Tad has been an incredible support and a great source of loving encouragement. I only hope to be able to return the favor as we grow together. Last night we were informed that Todd's cancer is back and is aggressively moving once more. He is doing some testing to assess his next step in the process of the fight. One thing I've always admired about Todd is his unfailing ability to love God and to trust in him. He has never blamed his cancer on anyone or anything. He takes everything in stride and usually with a healthy dose of humor. He uplifts the rest of us when we should be uplifting him! Our prayers are with him and our gratitude for his courage and strength.